In the wake of the pandemic, the entertainment industry created a new position on set to help keep outbreaks at bay. […] The demands of the job are big: sanitization, testing, safety equipment and distancing. Cast and crew are split into different zones, based on the frequency of testing and ability to wear masks. The…
I’m proud of the daughter for her involvement in this Equity audio production. (Some of the screams mentioned by the reviewer are hers.) One would be hard-pressed to find a more perfect production for the pandemic, as the radio drama comes with no visuals and forces one to shut out the outside world for the…
https://youtu.be/CWcEABVWbfA Similar:Secret Mouthwash Dance Exposed as FraudRecently, while getting the kids ready f…AmusingScoutship Flyby — #Blender3d and #MakeHumanhttps://youtu.be/8bgqZ_-iBcEAestheticsEye of Sauron, Hobbit Door, Palantir and One Ring Easter Eggs.AestheticsYes, Virginia, There Is a Journalist!My new hero is NPR’s Michael Oreskes. S…Current_EventsDog and TP WallAmusingThe Onion's Supreme Court Briefing on Satire Is StunningFrom October: A man who…
Bits and pieces from a news article that summarizes recent scholarly studies. Some moderately good news, and a reminder that increased testing means finding more cases, and finding them earlier, which means people get medical treatment sooner. (More testing means less suffering and fewer deaths. For those of us who care about such things.) Over…
My big finish as Alquist in a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Similar:You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To ScienceI don’t have scientific expertise. I wor…CultureURL Hacking (new graphic for an older page that’s surprisingly popular on my site)CybercultureLooking up an elevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3D project. #design…
Rewatching ST:TNG. The plot, such as it is, quickly gets Picard and Wesley separated from the Enterprise and in the company of a mining shuttle pilot who challenges Picard’s authority. After a few on-location scenes in a bleak desert, the story shifts to the standard generic cave set, where some falling chunks of foam and…
I wish I had the time or energy to get out the telescope and camera, but I did go out for a walk in the neighborhood and got an eyeful of this in the sky. Similar:Summer project: learning the Unity gaming engine.One bedtime about 11 years ago, my 5yo d…PersonalAlphabet in Motion: How Letters Get…
In October 2000, I was blogging about The F. Scott Fitzgerald Short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (background; full text) A biography of Virginia Woolf The precarious status of English as a global language A call for papers for a special issue of Text Technology devoted to interactive fiction (I have a copy on my shelf…
There are some sound pedagogical reasons for turning cameras on. Thus, I suggest sharing those reasons with the students before giving them the choice of what to do about their cameras. Explain why you are making your request. For example, being able to see students’ faces gives instructors a quick and easy way to discern whether students are finding the material engaging, at least in smaller classes. One instructor told me that “I asked students to turn their cameras on to say hi to their classmates at the beginning and end of class, and those were the best moments of the class.”
Similar:That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. G…That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of…AestheticsMy brother drove my mother in to see Carolyn in tonight’s opening night Kinetic Theatre pr…PersonalJerz Family Tin Can Robot Warshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBQkobPW…PersonalMany things in the world are awful, but my latest #Blender3D work on my #steampunk…
Similar:I had a singular time voicing Sherlock Holmes in The Mystery of Dr. Watson (WAOB Audio The… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azja…CultureMore bits of my summer project – another delightful span of a #neovictorian #steampunk con…AestheticsCombined, base color, roughness and metallic passes. #Blender3d steampunk control panel. AestheticsWhy Were Old Video Games So Pixelated?I get all my news online…
Obviously I would have preferred to see it live, but the pandemic-era video presentation — with clever graphics that indicate stage actions and pop-up text that augment the recorded performances — was subtle and touching. Similar:Recording my lines for a student escape room project.PersonalThis image of Mark Zuckerberg says so much about our futureA billionaire…
Similar:Happy Easter!PersonalDelighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by @t…PersonalAfter my conference talk, a post-audition, pre-Jane-Eyre-performance dinner with the girl.PersonalUshering for a school matinee. Love seeing the kids excited about @prime_stage Frankenstei… CultureThe Girl at rehearsal (where else?).PersonalOh the Overthinks You Can Overthink: Horton the Elephant, the Wickersham Brothers, and Mas…Yesterday,…
The daughter plays Laertes in Seton Hill’s free, live Zoom production of Hamlet (with a film noir theme) which opens tonight at 8. (The first half will be performed tonight and next Friday; the next half will be performed Saturday and next Saturday.) Free tickets to Seton Hill’s livestreaming video production of Hamlet Through the…
From The Brookings Institution (non-profit, deeply sourced factual writing; has been accused of both conservative and liberal bias; is cited in Congress about equally by conservative and liberal politicians; leans a bit left in terms of loaded language): American institutions are not perfect, of course. We all should want to improve scientific practices, remove bias…
Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 anti-fascist novel adapted for radio by Berkeley Rep. Similar:A familiar performer choreographed and dances the "Canaan Days" tango in Stage Right's Jos…AestheticsCommunities of Play: The Social Construction of Identity in Persistent Online Game WorldsI played the open-source version of Uru …CultureYour Brain on ShakespeareAmusingAmLit Rescue — Scratch GameA student in my “American…
It was a reporter’s bodyguard, not an anti-fascist activist, who shot and killed a right-wing demonstrator who had assaulted him. The viral spread of those false claims apparently alarmed the Denver Police Department, which had taken Dolloff into custody along with the journalist he was guarding and quickly determined that they were not left-wing…
Similar:Facets #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 3, Episode 21) Dax's colleagues channel the personal…Rewatching ST:DS9 The lead characters c…MediaWindows 3.1 Turns 30: Here’s How It Made Windows EssentialAfter watching all the episodes of the 8…AestheticsSerious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say The brain was not designed for r…BooksWhat is a CRT…
For my birthday I treated myself to Episode 2 of RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) — the play that introduced the word “Robot” to the world 100 years ago. Similar:Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker by Robert GottliebIn 1915, Parker, aged twenty-two, went t…CultureKnow your rights: photographers — what to do if you are stopped or detained for taking…
Similar:Still shot from a flyover video that's been taking about 3 minutes to render each fra…AestheticsZooming into the abyss: Black squares don’t contribute much to the learning environment.PersonalWhat are you eating at midnight breakfast?PersonalFantasticks (Theatre Factory, Oct 18-27) AestheticsDrawing of Once on This Island by the amazing Rebecca Scassellati.PersonalThe annual patriotic showing of #1776 has…